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- Editor: Oliver Barton (submitted 2007-08-19). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 118 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: A Cradle Song
Composer: Tim Porter
Lyricist: William Butler Yeats
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Written for a christening; a gentle, still little piece.
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
The angles are stooping
Above your bed;
They are weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead.
God's laughing in heaven
To see you so good,
The Sailing Seven
Are gay with his mood.
I sigh that kiss you,
For I must own
That I shall miss you
When you have grown.